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Key person thanks

10:30am Wednesday 16th May 2012

THANK you to whoever found my keys when I lost them in the car park at Sainsbury’s in Eastleigh, and handed them in at the police station.

Churches should act to foil the lead thieves

10:30am Wednesday 16th May 2012

WHY are churches waiting to have their lead stolen not once but twice when some months ago I suggested they replace it with the Ubiflex or similar none scrap value lead replacement before it was stolen, as the lead scrap value may meet most of the replacement costs?

Disgust at bus incidents

10:28am Wednesday 16th May 2012

I READ with disgust the report of the elderly person being sent off a bus as she didn’t have her bus pass. How can a driver send a vulnerable older person off a bus due to a bureacratic rule? Did he think she (in her 80s) was under 60?

‘Random’ ship insult

10:28am Wednesday 16th May 2012

ALEX Anderdon (Letters, May 10) is of course entitled to his own opinion of the new administration that has gained power in Southampton, and time will tell however if he is correct in his assessment of them.

Council is streets ahead for parties

10:29am Wednesday 16th May 2012

STREET parties are a great way for neighbours to get together. They get people interested in what’s happening in their area and help form friendships.

Betrayed by Labour

10:29am Wednesday 16th May 2012

AS A council employee in Southampton, I feel that I have been ripped off by the Labour councillors.

Care home ‘top up’

10:29am Wednesday 16th May 2012

MY FATHER has recently moved into a residential care home. He is nearly 91 and registered blind.

We now feel more pride in our city

10:01am Tuesday 15th May 2012

MY husband and I were born and brought up in Southampton. I must admit that I have always felt that the rebuilding of Southampton city centre was not done to the best of its advantage after the destruction of the Second World War. Nothing ever seemed to gel.

Mock-up a disaster

10:00am Tuesday 15th May 2012

EARLIER this month Fawley oil refinery and the emergency services had a mock disaster scenario.

Ups and downs of new bus timetable

10:02am Tuesday 15th May 2012

THE reorganisation of the bus numbers and routes seems to have caused a great amount of confusion.

My vote of thanks

10:02am Tuesday 15th May 2012

MAY I take this opportunity to thank all those in the Coxford ward of Southampton who cast their vote for me and the UK Independence Party.

Ring a bell, anyone?

10:03am Tuesday 15th May 2012

I WONDER how many of your readers have made telephone calls only to be presented with this weird recorded message: “There is a semantic error in the application”!

Critical MP letting in Labour

9:59am Tuesday 15th May 2012

JULIAN LEWIS, MP for New Forest East, once again questions decisions made by the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer for placing £10 billion into the International Monetary Fund. My understanding is that the IMF was in part a British idea, as was the European Union.

Enough is enough

10:54am Monday 14th May 2012

STUART Jebbitt’s letter “Say no to Sainsbury’s (Daily Echo, April 21) on this subject was spot on.

Saints coverage

10:56am Monday 14th May 2012

I AM also an avid and regular reader of the Daily Echo for many years and I have respect for Mrs J Pragnell (Saints overkill? Letters, May 2), but come on, what the Saints have done is given us all – whether football supporters or not – something to be happy about in these difficult times.

Research study into pain

10:54am Monday 14th May 2012

RESEARCHERS at the University of Southampton are conducting an investigation on the management of chronic pain, addressing whether Attentional Bias Modification Training (ABMT) can reduce the physical pain people with chronic pain experience, as well associated distress.

Switchover woes

10:55am Monday 14th May 2012

I AGREE with previous correspondents about the digital switchover.

Wrong sort of bag

10:55am Monday 14th May 2012

ONE of my garden waste bags was half full of waste in a shed for a few days.

Our hedgehogs face a prickly future

10:57am Monday 14th May 2012

HEDGEHOGS are fast dwindling in numbers which is a big concern for survival of their population.

Accept it? Why should I?

3:02pm Friday 11th May 2012

I’M writing in response to Charlie Arnold’s letter in the Daily Echo of May 7.

40-year U-turn on Town Hall by Tories

3:02pm Friday 11th May 2012

WHEN back in 1974 local government reorganisation added 50 per cent to Eastleigh borough’s population, it was obvious that the existing Town Hall was not big enough to accommodate the extra administration staff needed and the council chamber, already full when there were only 28 councillors, couldn’t seat 44.

Thanks to hospital

3:04pm Friday 11th May 2012

HAVING just come home from spending a while in Southampton General Hospital, I would like to express my praiseworthy comments, especially towards the catering department.

Commending service at hospital

3:09pm Friday 11th May 2012

MY wife spent a week in the General Hospital recently. I would like to commend the service that she received.

Our local government is impotent on key issues

3:09pm Friday 11th May 2012

I READ councillor David Harrison’s letter about decision-making with interest.

Is it sour grapes?

2:50pm Friday 11th May 2012

PERHAPS Charlie Arnold would care to elaborate on his suggestion that we should shrug our shoulders at 550 job losses at British Gas (Letters, May 7).